Hackers are playing off of the impending implementation of GDPR, posing as Airbnb hosts in emails saying victims must accept new privacy policy based on the regulation before further bookings can be made.

PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) Corp. announced the arrest of 15 hackers in China who were accused of developing, selling, promoting, and using unauthorised hacking/cheating programs on the platform.

US Homeland Security warned Russian state actors behind attacks on US energy grid. Security researchers have warned that hackers are using badly-configured Cisco switches to gain entry into the infrastructure of organisations.

Amidst a major rise in zero-day malware attacks in Q4 2017, researchers have observed how hackers are increasingly using Microsoft Office documents as carriers to deliver malicious payloads in enterprise systems.

The US Dept of Justice has charged nine Iranians from the Mabna Institute with stealing more than 31 terabytes of files from US, UK and other universities, companies, government agencies and non-governmental organisations.

The rising capabilities of Iranian hackers came to the fore in 2017 when hacker groups like Helix Kitten, Charming Kitten, and Volatile Kitten launched several crippling cyber-attacks on Saudi Arabian entities.

Gwent Police failed to inform up to 450 people that hackers may have accessed their confidential information after it found that an online tool that allowed citizens to report incidents to the Police was exposed to hackers.

The hackers who injected malicious code into a version of computer maintenance app CCleaner last year may have been preparing to deliver third-stage malware to some of the 2.27 million computers that had downloaded it.

The Hacking Team is back: previously unreported samples of its infamous surveillance tool, the Remote Control System (RCS), were spotted in the wild throughout fourteen countries, according to ESET researchers.

Hacker group Lazarus has renewed a phishing campaign it launched, but instead of injecting malware to access enterprise IT environments, the group is now injecting implants to identify those running Bitcoin-related software.

Warnings that the 2018 Winter Olympic Games would be the target for hackers came true almost immediately as the Pyeongchang computer system was hit with a "destroyer" cyber-attack knocking its website and other services offline.

NSA exploits stolen by hacker Shadow Brokers can be tweaked to exploit vulnerabilities in all versions of Windows, including Windows 10 - so deploy the MS17-010 security update from Microsoft as soon as possible.

Sophisticated implants such as Gold Dragon, Brave Prince, Ghost419, and RunningRat allow hackers to steal sensitive data from systems owned by organisations involved with the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Hackers could run code on VPN box. Cisco has confirmed a critical security vulnerability in its SSL VPN solution, Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), one of the most widely-deployed SSL VPNs on the market.

On Sunday it was announced that Coincheck Inc would return 46.3 billion Yen (£302 million) of virtual money to its owners after hackers stole the amount last week in one of the biggest-ever virtual money thefts, according to Reuters.

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